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Get Woke, Go Broke: Gillette Loses BILLIONS After Sexist and Lecturing #MeToo Razor Ads
GATEWAY PUNDIT ^ | 7/31/2019 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 08/01/2019 5:12:32 AM PDT by bitt

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To: bitt

Winning!

Next story SHOULD be the MASS Firings of the Marketing folks and those who hired them. These areas in most companies are absolutely infested with liberal leftists. Time for a corporate America to start cleaning house of these progressives costing their company millions, if not billions of dollars.


41 posted on 08/01/2019 5:44:55 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: ManHunter

[[[It’s right up there with Dick’s sporting goods decision to stop selling those mean black guns, then - as if that weren’t enough - to proclaim that they were going to destroy all of the mean black guns in their inventory.]]]

True. Dicks aspires to be an exercise equipment and apparel dealer for beta males. They have the perfect name for it.


42 posted on 08/01/2019 5:47:54 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's a highway to hell.)
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To: bitt

Rules of Marketing:

A very satisfied customer will tell 14 people, a dissatisfied customer will tell 80.


43 posted on 08/01/2019 5:49:00 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: bitt
It looks like trashing their consumer base with feminist lecturing was not such a good idea, huh?

But they will continue to do it as virtue signaling is more important than profit to these people.


44 posted on 08/01/2019 5:49:19 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: super7man

The problem is that the people who staff corporate marketing departments have never learned the Rules of Marketing.

They are generally female Millenial social media addicts who earned their degrees from one of America’s finest liberal brainwashing universities. They are steeped in SJW and are able to convince their bosses that five negative tweets from activists pose an imminent threat to the future of the company.


45 posted on 08/01/2019 5:51:46 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: bitt

My husband switched to some other brand. I don’t use razors.


46 posted on 08/01/2019 5:52:21 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: rootntootn
"When my existing supply expires I’m switching to something else."

I didn't wait. I threw away all of my households Gillette products on the spot.

47 posted on 08/01/2019 5:56:45 AM PDT by Desron13 (You may choose to ignore reality but you can't force reality to ignore you.)
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To: circlecity

“I switched to Harry’s razors after that.”
I also dropped them and went with Harry’s! Never going back!!


48 posted on 08/01/2019 5:56:51 AM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: trisham
I don’t use razors.

That’s a slow pitch I am not going to swing at. Just...not...gonna...😝

49 posted on 08/01/2019 5:57:45 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: bitt

Tried Schick, tried Harry’s. Settled on Bic.


50 posted on 08/01/2019 5:58:37 AM PDT by TexasKamaAina
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To: bitt

Tried Schick, tried Harry’s. Settled on Bic.


51 posted on 08/01/2019 5:58:40 AM PDT by TexasKamaAina
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To: circlecity

You made a mistake. Harry’s was FIRST on the “toxic masculinity” bandwagon. When I found out last year, I wrote to them. They replied with SJW nonsense that would make Gillette cringe.


52 posted on 08/01/2019 6:00:33 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: circlecity

“I switched to Harry’s razors after that.”
As did I.
And I’ve made sure that all I know are aware of how far Gillette has descended.


53 posted on 08/01/2019 6:01:45 AM PDT by Da Coyote (eh)
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To: circlecity

Agreed. Harry’s is good stuff. I hope they don’t take a political stance on anything.


54 posted on 08/01/2019 6:02:39 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: Magnum44

? Modern technology is better.


55 posted on 08/01/2019 6:02:58 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: bitt

I’ve been wondering if we would ever see the impact of that ad. Immediately after, they were quick to announce that there was ‘no dropoff’ in sales. Buried in a huge company like P&G, it was hard to verify.

But I know this: I’m 60 years old. I’ve been using Gillette razors, exclusively, since I was 15. Been buying their Mach 3 brand for as long as I can remember.

After seeing that stupid ad, I threw them ALL in the garbage and bought a Schick 5 blade razor. Took a few days to get used to it... but, now I love it. I can use one blade for a month. The old Mach 3 blades were only good about a week.

I’m not much the type for boycotts...but, that ad was just more than I could take. I was pretty convinced it would hurt them. Apparently, it was a little worse than they let on.


56 posted on 08/01/2019 6:03:32 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!it)
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To: cornfedcowboy

“Agreed. Harry’s is good stuff. I hope they don’t take a political stance on anything.”

You (and everyone else using Harry’s) might want to read Post #52.


57 posted on 08/01/2019 6:06:43 AM PDT by utax
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To: bitt

I signed up with Dollar Shave Club a few years ago before Gillette started all their nonsense.

I did so because Gillette products were so freakin’ EXPENSIVE!

DSC sends high quality (as good or better than Gillette) blades once a month. They last a long time, and I have a pile of yet-to-be-used blades.

I switched to a shaving brush and soap; really like it.

No more Gillette for me.

Ever


58 posted on 08/01/2019 6:07:26 AM PDT by Peter W. Kessler ("NUTS!!!")
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To: Desron13

Wish I could join the boycott, but I switched to single edge razors (English and German made, 100+ years old). Never have to buy refills, just sharpen and hone them.


59 posted on 08/01/2019 6:09:46 AM PDT by grwcfl537
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To: rootntootn
Feather DE blades - 25 cents each (THE absolute BEST & SHARPEST blade in the world from a Japanese medical blade company)

Rockwell 6C Razor w/6 adjustable settings


60 posted on 08/01/2019 6:11:13 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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